“The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.”
Lee Child book The Affair
Source: The Affair
“I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.”
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(15 October 1991)
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